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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

J. E. GLEDHILL. MAGHINE FOB. COATING AND PRINTING PAPER.

No. 540,q97. Patented May 28, 1895.

INVENTOH ATTORNEYS.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

'(No Model.)

J. B. GLEDHILL. I MAGHINE FOR COATING AND PRINTING PAPER.

Patented May 28, 1895.

ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES: 0 Add" UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

JAMES E. GLEDHILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FORCOATING AND PRINTING PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,097, dated May 28,1895. Application filed February 20, 1895. Serial No- 539,092- (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AMES E. GLEDHILL, of

New York city, in the county and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Coating and PrintingPaper, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.The invention relates to wall paper printmg and coating machines; andits object is to provide certain new and useful improvements in papercoating and printing machines, whereby the position of the paper can bereadily changed while passing from one machine to the other, and thenecessity of rolling the paper between the two processes is avoided.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations'ofthe same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improvement as arranged on a groundingand printing machine. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on theline 2 2 of Fig.1. Fig. 3 isa sectional side elevation ofthe same on theline 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the same on the line 44of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 isa plan view of the improvement as arranged to turnthe paper completely over durin g travel. Fig. 6 is a transverse sectionof the same on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a plan view of theimprovement as arranged to turn the paper over and return it in the sameplane. Fig.8 is a side elevation of the same, and Fig. 9 is a plan Viewof the improvement arranged with a single roller.

. The device as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and at is arranged on apaper coating and a printing machine placed one alongside the other soas to occupy comparartively little room. The paper A under treatmentunwinds from a roll B, to pass through the grounding machine 0, of anyapproved construction, to receive the ground on one side of the paper.The paper after leaving the grounding machine 0 is hung up in folds bythe lathing and drying device D, to then pass from the latter over therollers E and F, under an angularly arranged roll G,

to then pass over the same in a transverse direction and over and undera roll H standing at right angles to the roll G, as is plainly shown inFig. 1. The paper A then passes from under the roll H rearwardly, undera roller I, and thence over and under a series of rolls held to rotatein a support J, to then pass to the printing cylinder of the printingmachine K of any approved construction. The side of the paper coated bythe coating machine 0 is now printed with the usual design by theprinting machine K, from which the paper passes over the drying device Lto the lathing device N on which the paper receives a final drying,previous to being wound up and cut into rolls. Now, it will be seen thatby the arrangement described, the position of the paper is changed bythe rolls G and H, so as to permit of placing the two machines onealongside the other, and thus considerable room or space is saved in thebuildlng.

It is understood that the rolls G and H are supported in suitable framesand may be.

formed by simple rods over which the paper passes as above described. Ifit is desired to turn'the paper. completely over, for instance incoating it on both sides, or in printing on both sides, or coating it onone side and printing it on the other, then the arrangement shown inFigs. 5 and 6 is placed between the two machines. In this case the rollsH and G are placed one over the other and at right angles to oneanother, as indicated in said Figs. 5 and 6, so that the paper A firstpasses under the roll H over the top of the same, and under the roll Gand over the top of the latter, to extend in a parallel direction to thepaper as it comes to the rolls. Now it will be seen that by thisarrangement, that which was the upper surface of the paper, previous topassing to the roll H, is on the under side after the paper leaves theroll G, and consequently the position of the paper not only permits ofplacing the machines one alongside the other, but also completely turnsthe paper over, so as to permit of treating it on both sides by the twomachines.

As shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the two stationary rolls G and I1 cross eachother at their middle and are located directly one above the other, sothat the paper A coming from one machines stand in the two. wings ofthebuildl-Iaving thus fully described my invention, I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a paper printing and coatingmachine 1 having two machines, of which one receives the paper from theother, two rolls arranged at angles one to the other, andinterposedint'he path of travel of the paper between the tWomachines,the said paper passing under one roll and over the same-t0 the otherroll in a transverse direction, over the second roll, and then under thelatter to finally pass to the second machine, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a paper printing and coating machine having two machines, of whichone receives the paper from the other, two rolls arranged 1 at anglesone to the other and interposed in the path of travel of the paperbetween the two machines, the said paper passing first un- 1 der oneroll and over the same in a transverse direction, and under the secondroll and over the top thereof, to pass in a parallel direction to thesecond machine, substantially as shown g and described.

JAMES E. GLEDHILL.

Witnesses:

EDWARD E. BARNES,

HENRY GLEDHILL, Jr.

